"...ABC World News Tonight showed her
sitting in a private jet, cradling an injured whooping crane in her arms. The
jet was whisking Erskine and the bird, which had been shot by a hunter, from
Erskine's home in Midland to San Antonio, where an avian veterinarian would try
to save the animal..."

It begins on a bridge and ends there, too, but in between Tanya Wexler's debut feature is anything but your ordinary bridge story. Vibrantly funny and shot through with a...

Film ReviewOctober 15, 1999, by Marc Savlov

"...So he hosts parties, gives away his possessions, and though testing negative, he still waits to die. When the two finally meet up, Rhonda affixes herself to this strange bird and follows him to Denton, Bobby's hometown, in a quixotic quest to put the past to rest, if possible, and begin again or die trying..."

Written over 12 years ago by Ron Shelton (the writer and director of Bull Durham and White Men Can't Jump), the story of Blue Chips explores the moral boundaries of...

Film ReviewFebruary 25, 1994, by Marjorie Baumgarten

"...Much of the movie's problem, I suspect, comes from the vast use of non-professionals in dramatic roles, whose charismatic abilities should be restricted to the basketball court and not the dramatic arena. There are gratuitous cameos by Larry Bird and Bobby Knight and larger-than-cameo roles by Shaquille O'Neal and Bob Cousy..."

The How's Your News? crew rolls out its unique brand of reportage on MTV

Screens StoryFebruary 27, 2009, by Clay Smith

"...There is nothing like it anywhere on TV, for that matter. In the first episode, reporter BobbyBird, who has Down syndrome and is difficult to understand, asks comedian Jimmy Kimmel a question that sounds entirely unintelligible..."

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

Books StoryJune 22, 2001, by Dick Holland

"...Sarah Bird is coming over for lunch and she's promised to bring her latest production -- the soundtrack to her new novel, The Yokota Officers Club. Her e-mail had said: "You'll get my Napster when you pry the mouse from my cold, dead hand."..."

John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy star as middle-aged friends who seek life's purpose while on a cross-country motorcycle trip.

Film ReviewMarch 2, 2007, by Toddy Burton

"...But despite this lineage, Wild Hogs remains firmly rooted in the lowbrow. The writer (Brad Copeland, seasoned from TV’s Arrested Development and My Name Is Earl) combines some good comedy, usually involving Lawrence, with weak comedy, usually involving poop (both bird and human)..."

"...The Bares were lucky enough to call Silverstein a friend and the love shows, although it doesn’t hurt that he wrote some of the most memorable story songs of the past century.
Venerable old voices like John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, Nancy Griffith, and Ray Price mix with hip new ones such as Andrew Bird, My Morning Jacket, Dr. Dog, and Sarah Jarosz, each tackling tunes like “A Boy Named Sue,” “Queen of the Silver Dollar,” “The Cover of the Rolling Stone,” “The Unicorn,” “Sylvia’s Mother,” and “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan." Silverstein, who passed away in 1999, was also an acclaimed screenwriter, cartoonist, and author of children’s books, so if this gets people to find out who he was outside the music, it will be successful beyond its means...."

"...DreamWorks was starting an animation department, Warner was doing animation, Fox had just bought Don Bluth studios -- the golden age of animation. "Look, this guy named Brad Bird just told us how to do Iron Giant, and we want you to be the writer..."

"...On KUTX the other night, Hard Proof Afrobeat saxophonist Jason Frey came on to promote February's MapJam. In the spot, he discussed memorable gigs and let on that the greatest show his funky big band ever played was on Lady Bird Lake summer 2010...."

"...The newly formed Fabulous Thunderbirds began playing there regularly. A holdover band from the days of the One Knite, Paul Ray & the Cobras -- now sporting Stevie on lead guitar -- could pack Soap Creek every Tuesday and still command a weekend crowd at Antone's..."

Tim McCanlies is known in the movie business as a great script writer with few scripts that have actually hit the big screen. With the Sept. 19 release of Secondhand Lions, long thought to be one of the best unproduced scripts around, that will change.

Screens StorySeptember 19, 2003, by Louis Black

"...movie, by definition." During a very successful wide release in Texas, Calley said, "You know, when we open it in Oklahoma we should call it Dancer, Oklahoma." Since it only cost two million, they told me they were going to make more off of it than they were from Godzilla, because they spent so little on it. Since it opened in certain cities like New York and L.A., Dancer got the typical TriStar output deal [ancillary sales of rights in such areas as video/DVD, foreign distribution and TV/cable].Musical Giant? Talking About MMMMYYY Giant! I got a call one day from Warner's Feature Animation: "Brad Bird just told us how to do Iron Giant, but they're giving us two months to make this deal, and we want to hire you as writer now!" I said, "Well, can I meet with Brad?" They said, "No, he won't meet while we're making the deal."..."

"...Hubbard's storied career in local music is told once again with bright eyes, big smiles, and a lot of laughter, the kind aging men let loose in moments of deep pride in their accomplishments. From center stage to the audience, from beyond the spotlight and into the backdoor business dealings between club owners and players, and from onetime bandleader of the Eastside's hottest house band to backer of tour legends ("Bright Lights, Inner City," July 4, 2003), the guitarist's bird's-eye view remains one of the most potent landmarks of Austin's long-faded "Chitlin' Circuit."..."

"..."I have a vivid memory of this fellow shooting the bird at me," laughs Berry. "I decided to 'make love' to him from the stage, doing Patsy Cline's 'Walkin' After Midnight' with as much gushy ooze as I could muster..."

"...White Bird in a Blizzard is another coming-of-age period piece, but swaps rural Texas for the chilly suburbs. Across the cusp of the Nineties, Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley) and her father (Christopher Meloni) are left reeling and dealing with the repercussions of her mother's disappearance..."